Ireland’s Wild Atlantic Way takes on the status of one of the longest coastal drives in the world at 1,600 miles. It joins the ranks of other great coastal roads like Nova Scotia’s Cabot Trail, Big Sur, Maui’s Kahekili Highway, and South Africa’s Garden Route. Drive down narrow one-lane roads to see secret beaches, towering…
Compiled from multiple trips to NOLA, this New Orleans off-the-beaten-path guide will take you away from the lines and ordinary attractions, and help you find the local and unique things to do in the crescent city. I love to go out and explore a city to find hidden gems that haven’t been discovered yet! Actually,…
My brain was so busy anticipating penguins and landscapes. Yet throughout both of my Antarctica cruises, I realized that there was much more to Antarctica than I originally thought. Some of the things you could do there were quite surprising! Here are 7 things to do in Antarctica that surprisingly don’t involve wildlife! Non-Wildlife Things…
“Don’t you dare ignore me!” my alarm would scream at me if it could talk. My alarm started quietly this morning and progressively got louder. As much as I wanted to, I couldn’t ignore it, I had to get up early to go photograph an average town. Just like with people, there are places in…
“We want you to travel back to one of your least favorite cities,” the note read. ‘I’m used to getting a lot of weird emails, but this one I had to take a second look at. Yes, it said “least favorite city”, I wasn’t imagining it. Now you have my attention. I love things that…
If you just come, put your foot in the Arctic Ocean, or walk on it in winter and turn around – then you are missing out. To really experience Tuktoyaktuk (Tuk as the locals call it), you need to stay a night, walk around, get stuck in the snow, rely on the kindness of the…
Looking for things to do in Costa Brava, Spain? Then, take a journey through the medieval towns of Costa Brava and Girona Pyrenees. The region is full of imposing castles, walled cities, and ruins of centuries past. Medieval towns this old and beautiful should be captured to give you lasting holiday memories, so bring your…
It took my 80-year-old father and me 15 days to finish our Costa Brava Coastal Path hike last summer. Fifteen wonderful individual days staring out at the Mediterranean and some of the most beautiful coastlines in Spain! It felt as if every day was the best ever – and then we’d wake up and start…
When the medieval stones of Girona start feeling like they are closing in on you, maybe you need to escape the Medieval city and take a little walk in the countryside. After climbing stairs and traversing medieval walls for a week, it was time to get out of the city and see some of the…
I sort of feel like I spent the last 4 weeks at a Renaissance Fair without the costumes. I’ve been in the Costa Brava, Spain area, working on a Medieval town project that has had me photographing more old stones than you can ever imagine! One would think that I’d get tired of photographing brick…